Re: World's Coolest Fridge Magnet!

CodyAkin Wrote:
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> Thanks Roger and friends!
>
> Wow, I can't believe it's been 5 years since the
> NGDF Invasion! Too bad those things don't happen
> more often.
>
> The Trains Magazine charter is later this month,
> so we thought we'd try to number the "483" a bit
> differently than we did for the 40th anniversary.
> I'm guessing they'll use the movie paint for the
> re-paint, so we're just trying to help with the
> front side of the loco. Its kinda hard to do when
> you live 800 miles away, so hopefully everything
> fits and looks right. Hopefully we'll see some
> nice pictures on here, as we won't make it out
> this time.


No special paint for the Last REAL Freights in AUGUST of 1968, Cody -

The 'Scarlet Harlot' didn't get her gaud-awful two-tone movie make-up 'til two or three weeks later for the filming of 'The Good Guys and the Bad Guys' in mid- and late September:*

Photo copyright © 1968, 2010 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.

She and #484 looked pretty much the same – standard D&RGW black with sooty silver noses – for the last freights on 08/28-29/1968:


- Roosso

*  I presume that those who are planning on celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the first week of the C&TS in September of 2020 will doll her up appropriately at that time . . .